AMD “Radeon R9 390X” looks forward in Sandra – can get 4,096 stream processors

It is blowing up to storm the graphics card market. While Nvidia was the first to deliver a new generation, AMD is working silently on the Radeon 300 series, where the Fiji graphics circuit is expected to replace Hawaii as the flagship. Now there are details that strengthen information that AMD has news to come in the near future.

The performance database of the test program Sisoft Sandra, which recently revealed details for Nvidia’s new top circuit GM200, reveals an as yet unknown graphics circuit from AMD. 64 computing units are mentioned here for a total of 4,096 stream processors, compared to 2,816 in Hawaii, which indicates that Fiji was tested.

This includes an identical clock frequency as for today’s flagship Radeon R9 290X, ie 1,000 MHz. It results in a theoretically increased computing power of a little more than 45 percent, but how this can be translated into game performance, it is too early to say.

For the memory bus, a massive 4,096 bits are listed, which is most likely a reading error in the software. In addition, the tested graphics card has 4 GB of video memory at 1.25 GHz (5.0 GHz efficient), which with a more likely 512-bit memory bus would provide the same bandwidth as the Radeon R9 290X – 320 GB / s. However, this does not count on things like improved compression, which in the latest Radeon R9 285 is said to give up to 40 percent higher bandwidth efficiency.

Despite early test specimens, Fiji and the new Radeon 300 series will most likely be delayed until the beginning of next year.